- Location(s): Iceland, Reykjavik
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 2000s
A man is making a crude leather mask with an iron spike fixed in the middle of the forehead. It is a ‘death mask’, once used by Icelandic farmers to slaughter calves, and he has revenge in mind. Meanwhile,...
- Location(s): Nairobi
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
When a bomb explodes in a downtown Nairobi hotel, private detectives Ishmael and Odhiambo quickly make the connection to a murder case they’re investigating. It’s the first big break for their new detective agency, Black Star, formed after they...
- Location(s): Java
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
An ambitious, unconventional, compelling saga of men at war, captivity, forced prostitution, murder, political dirty tricks and mob terror in Japanese-occupied and revolutionary Indonesia. Rory Marron’s Black Sun, Red Moon gives us an almost tangible glimpse of the chaos...
- Location(s): England, France
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Jay Mackintosh has the privilege of spending time with Jackapple Joe who introduces him to the simple wisdom and magic of life in the country, in Kirby Monckton. Joe disappears one Autumn without trace and Jay makes an impulse...
- Location(s): Seattle
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s, 2010
The story, which takes its title from a late-season, cold-weather phenomenon, continues Jio’s rich exploration of the ways personal connections can transcend the boundaries of time. Seattle, 1932. Single mother Vera Ray kisses her three-year-old son, Daniel, goodnight and...
- Location(s): Iceland
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
On the shores of a tranquil fjord in Northern Iceland, a man is brutally beaten to death on a bright summer’s night. As the 24-hour light of the arctic summer is transformed into darkness by an ash cloud from...
- Location(s): Virginia
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Beauregard “Bug” Montage: honest mechanic, loving husband, devoted parent. He’s no longer the criminal he once was – the sharpest wheelman on the east coast, infamous from the hills of North Carolina to the beaches of Florida. But when...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1800s
It is at once a complex mystery story that fully engages the reader in the work of detection, and an unforgettable indictment of an indifferent society. Its representations of a great city’s underworld, and of the law’s corruption and...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Suspense
- Era(s): 2005 in the months before and after 7/7
Can you ever truly know someone? And what if you suspect the unthinkable? London, five months before 7/7. Georgie, a young woman wary of relationships after previous heartbreak, gives in and agrees to sleep with close friend Julian. She’s...
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 15th Century
By the end of the fifteenth century, the beauty and creativity of Italy is matched by its brutality and corruption, nowhere more than in Rome and in the Church. When Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia buys his way into the papacy...
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